One of the great things about APIs is that they make applications more accessible than ever in the age of the cloud. But just because an application is accessible doesn’t necessarily mean there is a mechanism in place to consume data from the application via the API it exposes. In fact, the tools needed to consume that data is giving rise to a new class of middleware that is collectively being referred to as cloud brokering software.

The London DataStore MyLondon API is a web/ internet API that is driven by the CKAN API (which is a product API). MyLondon API provides tools for accessing up to date information about the city. The...